More reality show reviews...

Been a while since my last blurb on reality shows, so here goes:

"Bromance" - OMG, you have to be KIDDING me! This thing is a car wreck akin to a Tau Kappa Epsolon hazing party, complete with body waxing, fashion shows, homo-erotic paling-around and the lowest-common-denomiator-of-stupid one can find across the unemployed 20-somethings of America. Bruce Jenner is an idiot, and, well, the acorn didn't fall far from the tree...

"The City" - Stupid girl moves to NYC and falls for Australian "musician/playboy" that uses her (and as many other women as he can find) as a cum-dumpster. Every publicitity hound in NYC is eager to join in the fun, but only for the free publicity. Otherwise, said girl would be a middle of the road member of the Vivid Video stable in the Valley...

"Real Housewives of Atlanta" - Oh man, what you you get when you give a bunch of women that normally would be living in public housing millions of dollars? You got it - stupidity! Apparently, this focused on the wives of a bunch of run-of-the-mill nd and 3rd-tier athletes wives burning through their husbands money like a sailor in Subic Bay. I'm really hoping for a follow-up in 10 years when their families are in the soup-kitchen line...which leads us to...

"Real Housewives of the OC, Part Gazzillion" - The plactic-faced chick with the junky for a son leaves, but there's fresh blood, namely a 30 year old with a 70 year old husband with leukemia! Wow...it's SO wrong...yet it's SO right!!! And she goes on vacation while he's in the throughs of chemo and dying...geez...ok, enough of that...

"Rock of Love: Charm School" - Brandy M. finally wins something, beating out Destiney for most improved former stripper/protitute. Good times, but Rock of Love Tour Bus, and Rock of Dayzee are gonna kick it's azz...

"Real Chance of Love" - These guys are AWESOME! Real and Chance were on I Love NY, then I Love Money, now they have their own gig. They have a rap group ("The Stallionaires")...supposedly...but it's more a case of "we're isiots and just like to spend other peoples money". The women are br00tal, and so is the story-line, not for the faint-of-heart...

Thazzit for 2008 - I've shot my load, and so should you...see you in 2009!

Who's a Bigger Idiot?

Bernie Madoff.

Hilarious.

Now, I've done plenty of business in the past with his NASDAQ market-making arm and been ripped off a penny at a time, but this fraud really takes the cake!

13% a year, risk free? Well - which one is it - 13% a year OR risk free? No such thing as both! You want risk-free in this time period? Treasuries or CD's at 3-4% is where you would have been at. If you were too stupid to see through this ruse, too bad for you...

Now there's talk of a "bail out" by the SIPC (and also the government once those funds are tapped out)? You HAVE to be kidding me! "Hey - I lost a couple hundred grand owning some great value stocks - I want to be paid too! AND I actually DID MY HOMEWORK, so I want all my losses in full".

Screw you - you rolled the dice and crapped out, no money for you!

On that note the GM/Ford/Chrysler triumvirate needs to get run through Chapter 11. Bob Johnson Esq.'s motto of "you work with your hands, you gets minimum wage" is the lesson to be learned here - $70/hour pay packages are for those of us that busted our asses in school/college/grad school and have to wear a suit and tie for a living, not the clowns that turn wrenches because they were too drunk and stoned in high school to know how to do anything else.

Same goes for everyone in their respective Department of Horrible Car Designs, as well Senior Managerial Cronies of the UAW - kicked to the curb!

Ideally, the government would split them up like AT&T, creating 10 new independent car companies under a number of badges, run like the Japanese company's plants in the South. But no - there will be a bailout (as a fixed income trader at Cantor mused, "bailing out insinuates that the problem will be fixed"), flushing MORE taxpayer money down the drain while those of us that actually work will be forced to pick up the tab...AGAIN!

Ugh, I need a Valium and a quart of Jack now...